Dear @Channel4
In your letter to Graham Linehan you make this jaw-dropping comment: "the episode ultimately risks appearing to endorse the view that trans women are in fact men". Do you not see how far you have gone in adopting an ideology based not on science or evidence, .../1
... but on faith? Transwomen are clearly not women; think about it - you can't be a transwoman without being a man!
Your claim to be doing some 'house-cleaning' has sinister undertones of a totalitarian attitude towards free expression.
How far will you go with this purge? .../2
Will you, for example, meticulously examine all of your content for misogyny? Good luck with that! But you won't, will you, because the feelings of a few narcissistic men are so much more important than those of the 52% of the population whose sex-based oppression you seem .../3
... not to have noticed.
Surely organisations such as yours are well-placed to understand that comedy is often richly laced with offence? Can you imagine the nature of your comedy output if you carry on like this? It will be a bland pudding indeed.
No-one has the right.../4
... not to be offended, and you do none of us any service by indulging this kind of knee-jerk bandwagon-jumping.
You could choose to be better than this. You could choose to stand up to the bullies, the misogynists and the no-platformers.
Please think again.
Yours, Paul Milnes
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